Diego magic run but brought down by the dirty Yepes who is booked, chance here.

Del Piero good strike for the freekick but Sorrentino read it well.

Zebina is on with a bandage.

Juve have their third blood injury of the match, Cannavaro was elbowed in the nose by Granoche 3 players cut up in the same match, unbelievable.

Zebina is fucking useless.

Felipe Melo gets booked for diving, even though Yepes made a really bad tackle attempt in the area on him, it's a question of contact.

Juve have been the much better team second half but still no real chance.

Immobile in to save the day Marchisio out.

what is going on?

Chievo have a chance with Pinzi, blocked.

Have you not watched us the last two months?

5 added on, we are just huffing and puffing.

yeah but Chievo are shit I thought

Felipe Melo just crosses about 30 yards over the bar, what a tosser.

Doesn't matter who Juve play these days, we would lose to Serie B sides.

Hahaha, we can't even take set pieces properly. Seriously, what the fuck does Ferrara actually coach? It's 11 guys running around like headless chickens every single match.

I feel sorry for Diego, Chiellini and Buffon, three quality players having to play in such a mediocre team.

Now Ferrara will surely be sacked before we play u guys

FT: Chievo 1-0 Juventus

Buffon 6
Grygera 5 (Zebina 4)
Cannavaro 6
Chiellini 6
Grosso 4 (Salihamidzic 5)
Marchisio 5 (Immobile 5)
Felipe Melo 5
De Ceglie 5
Diego 6
Del Piero 4
Paolucci 5

What are now, 5th? Yeah yeah, injuries, but the team we put out was still far better than Chievo's. Paolucci and De Ceglie would even start for them.

Fucking laughable if Ferrara stays after that, there was nothing positive whatsoever to take from the game. Results have not improved, performances have not improved. In fact, they have got worse and worse. I don't see why faith is given in this instance, we all love Ciro, but all I see so far is incompetence. We didn't even have a shot on goal aside from a freekick, disgusting.

I'm not sure I will watch the next match if Ferrara is still in charge, it's painful to watch us play like a relegation contender with a team worth £75m on the field. If we were an animal you would have put us down by now.

Serie A Week 20 - 17/1/10 (14.00 UK)

Chievo 1-0 Juventus

Sardo 33 ©

Stadio Bentegodi


Juventus suffered their first ever Bentegodi defeat and their crisis has now reached critical levels.

Ciro Ferrara kept his job thanks to a 3-0 midweek Coppa Italia win over Napoli, with goals from Diego and Alessandro Del Piero, but the pressure was still on as even third place in Serie A was under threat. An injury crisis meant Del Piero was the only available striker, so Michele Paolucci was recalled from his loan at Siena only yesterday and thrown straight into the starting XI.

David Trezeguet, Vincenzo Iaquinta, Mauro Camoranesi, Sebastian Giovinco, Christian Poulsen and Martin Caceres were sidelined, Momo Sissoko at the Africa Cup of Nations and Amauri suspended, but at least Gigi Buffon was back after knee surgery. Chievo were still without star striker Sergio Pellissier due to head trauma.

Chievo had previously managed just one point from a total seven editions of this fixture, back in 2005-06. The Flying Donkeys had the first chance in the opening minute, as Elvis Abbruscato immediately tested Buffon after springing the offside trap.

Zdenek Grygera accidentally got an elbow to the nose from Pablo Granoche, but was able to continue for some time despite bleeding heavily. He eventually left the field at the half-hour mark.

Buffon had to rush off his line to clear from Granoche and there was a huge scare on 27 minutes when Giorgio Chiellini accidentally prodded the ball into his own net, but the goal was disallowed due to an Abbruscato push on the defender.

Chievo did get their first Serie A goal of 2010 with Gennaro Sardo. The defender gathered a clearance outside the box and Paolo De Ceglie inexplicably backed off, giving him the time and space to line up an angled drive into the far bottom corner.

Rather than fight back, the Bianconeri seemed psychologically wounded by the opener and struggled to come forward. Just before the break they finally threatened an equaliser when Claudio Marchisio failed to turn in after the ball ricocheted around the box.

More injury woe for the Bianconeri, as Zebina - who had replaced Grygera due to a head injury - was bleeding heavily from his forehead following a mid-air collision with Granoche. The Chievo player was booked for raising his elbow.

Diego has struggled so far this season, but seemed a different player at the Bentegodi an often took on the Chievo defence single-handed.

The third player to spill blood for the Juventus cause was Fabio Cannavaro, who slipped and caught his face on Granoche's studs, causing a nasty cut to the nose.

Del Piero's free kick and a Cannavaro header landed meekly in Stefano Sorrentino's arms. If anything, Chievo threatened a second when Giampiero Pinzi's shot was charged down by Zebina in the box.

Chievo: Sorrentino; Sardo (Frey 82), Mandelli, Yepes, Mantovani; Luciano, Rigoni, Marcolini; Pinzi; Abbruscato (Ariatti 86), Granoche (De Paula 70)

Juventus: Buffon; Grygera (Zebina 30), Cannavaro, Chiellini, Grosso (Salihamidzic 58); Marchisio (Immobile 83), Felipe Melo, De Ceglie; Diego; Del Piero, Paolucci

Ref: Valeri

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Chievo's first win over Juve in 13 attempts, a new high achieved under Ferrara.

Melo misses the Roma game through suspension, so it gets even worse for you.

what the f**k is going on there ? this is terrible

Today after the first 10 min of the game I gave up on watching Juventus. You are spot on when you say we have 75 million on the field running around like headless chickens. I switched over to the Milan game where I was actually entertained.

Very much sad news on Monday morning... What can we say now??? It's really painful but Ferrara makes himself an idiot saying "If I'm the problem, the club will tell me"... He refuses to resign but opts for being sacked... Why does he do so? He needs some compensation??? He needs more time to train himself as a Serie A coach?

Yes we have many injured players but those still being able to play on the field is still ok to at least "play" with Chievo... A loss to Milan or Inter or even Roma can be accepted considering the current situation of the club but it cannot be to Chievo!!!

Bettega keeps telling him he isn't the problem, Ferrara doesn't even see the mistakes he make so can't improve in that respect, we are basically stuck on the level of Siena until we get players back and HOPE that this can get us enough points to scrape a CL. What a sad state of affairs our Juventus find ourselves in, and this all stems back to Calciopoli. It's really sickening, Serie A makes me feel sick. Our current predicament is down to those running the club, but only if.....